Striped red and white, the kind of barrier that blocks off a work zone and warns everyone to keep back. It marks literal roadwork, and gets used just as often for anything still unfinished — a profile that's a work in progress, a plan that isn't ready yet, a bio still in draft.
What 🚧 means
A pair of posts with bulb-like yellow structures at the top of each. There are two yellow and black striped boards placed between the two poles that are parallelly apart from each other.
The 🚧 Construction emoji signifies a roadblock, which can be used to suggest a construction site or any other reason for the blockage. This emoji could also suggest other forms of blockage such as a mental block.
How and when to use it
- If you've been feeling blocked out of someone's life or you have been literally blocked out of his/her social media, you can use 🚧 while texting someone about it or while making a meme out of it. Like, "The best way to get blocked by your online friends is to be yourself 🚧".
- If you're texting someone or sharing a social media post/story about a mental blockage or a writer's block that you're going through or, you can use 🚧. For example, "Some days, my mind is limitless and some days, it can't spell the meaning in anything 🚧".
- If you're sharing a social media post that needs immediate attention, you can use 🚧. The catchy colors used in this emoji are bound to grab eyes. For instance, "READ THE CAPTION 🚧".
- You could also use 🚧 as a way of stopping someone or something or telling someone to stop something they're doing or saying. For example, "Don't you get it? You're the problem. Stop killing people with kindness 🚧. You have a life. Be kind to yourself first".
Other Names
- 🚧 Construction Site
- 🚧 Building Site
- 🚧 Ongoing Construction
- 🚧 Road Block
- 🚧 Blockage
- 🚧 Halt
- 🚧 No Entry
- 🚧 No Trespassing
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F6A7- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:construction:- Keywords
- barrier, construction
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚧 Construction or 👩💼 Woman Office Worker?
Runs with a crowd
🚧 keeps company in orange emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.